The Projects Keep On Coming
As a writer, I find that I have to try out every form I come across at least once. Thus, I have just finished my first comic strip script and sent it to an artist friend who kindly agreed to collaborate on this little project.
The script was an interesting project because it felt more like directing than writing. The script ended up having no dialogue (somewhat unintentionally), so the writing was really based on what shots would best tell the story and how to make everything flow smoothly within the set format (eight rows of three panels each.) It was actually a lot of fun. It reminded me of working with some of the more rigid poetry forms (especially sonnets) but with much less angst.
All in all, this is definitely something I would like to do again. I’d love to resurrect the comic strip I did in high school as a web comic, but that’s something I would probably have to draw myself, and coming up with a character design that is simple enough for me to draw consistently is fairly hard (I actually did a couple of years ago, but of course promptly lost my sketches.) Luckily, one of the characters is a brick, which even I of the limited artistic skills can draw.